Take effective steps to ensure that the new virulent strains of coronavirus do not come into Bangladesh
While the government has listened to concerns and closed our border with India -- which is currently being devastated by the Covid-19 pandemic -- we must understand that the very nature of the virus is such that there are more ways than one in which it can re-enter our country.
The entirety of South Asia is being affected by the Indian strain, and a concerning example of this is Nepal, which is seeing an alarming rise in Covid-19 cases, now recording 57 times as many as it did a month ago.
News